1:41:50 Unbelievable story. I'll just play the first minute or so of this clip of These residents in I forget where it is now. Let me see. Well, I'll play the clip and I'll remember They have their smart meters installed. We're mad! Atlanta residents... Atlanta, we're mad! ...clearly have had enough. For you to expect us to think that 4 million gallons of water is leaking somewhere on our property and not showing up is absolutely mind-blowing. We were taking a shower every day, now we're skipping sometimes because we're trying to save the water.
1:42:27 For more than three years, Atlanta, a city of more than a half million residents, has been bombarded with complaints of outrageous water bills. Now remember, I told you that I was going nuts over the water bills here. Like, I'm paying like five, six hundred dollars a month in water. It's Mickey and I. You know, it makes no sense. No. Similar complaints are popping up around the country in places like Cleveland, Charlotte, Tampa and California. Brockton, Massachusetts. But the Waterbill war is nothing like in Atlanta. Just ask Wilda Cobb. I feel like I'm going crazy. Cobb lives by herself in this 1800 square foot home.
1:43:15 Her water bill averages $30 to $40 a month until it began going up more than $1,200 in November. What happened before this water bill went up, John? What do you think happened? Hello? No, no, tell me Adam! What are you doing? What, are you pooping? No, I had to get a glass of water. Oh jeez. Hey, that's a very expensive thing you're doing there. Yeah, this glass of water now cost me $50. What do you think happened? Well, well, what do you think happened? Well, let's listen. December bill, nearly $6,900. This is great! Cobb now owes more than $10,000. And city inspectors,
1:44:00 found no leaks. For me to have to remember when they were... I don't want to give it away. Take the time to do this. And then there's Debbie Scarborough. Her water bill shot up more than $3,000 after two months of huge spikes last summer. This is another bill, another month. She even hired two plumbers to prove there was no leak. Five years ago, the city hired a company to replace its aging water meters with automatic meter reading devices. Ah, there you go. It's the smart meters. And if you'll recall, the main selling point of the smart meters was to be able to detect leakage. So what they're doing now
1:44:46 is they are raping us and I'm sure that, this only really happened this morning that I found all this, I'm sure these smart meter companies are getting a piece of the back end but this is a 10 minute report of nothing but people who live in modest homes with thousands of dollars of water bills and then it's like they have no leaks, no nothing, no you're just using too much water slave. and it's rampant and it's all these smart meters. Yeah, I think it's what's happening with electricity, all these smart meters are being invested in electricity bills too. We've had that locally. In fact, my bill went way up for some unknown reason. And you just, well no, the reason is known, you just had a smart meter installed. Remember? You told me that. You had a smart meter installed, they did it on the outside, you had nothing to do with it, and now all of a sudden your electricity bill skyrockets because it's theft. They're stealing from you. Yeah. I'm actually getting very angry because
1:45:44 When you, when you, I mean our bills, it's out of control. It's, and we have like soft lighting, you know, with a transformer. We don't even have, we don't even have light bulbs. And the water, it's just off, off the chart. So they're installing these smart meters and I think that the companies, you see, they go in, they interview one of these guys, total jabroni douchebag. I think they're on the back end. I think they get a piece of the back end because they also do collections, remember? They do collections, they don't just measure it with Wi-Fi, they drive by and they collect all the data wirelessly, but they do the collections as well. So they're on the back end of this because that's what you get paid for, you get a percentage of collections. They're just jacking up everybody's rates.
1:46:30 And so what? Well, it sounds like an out and out scam. And of course, we don't have any public utilities commissions anymore with any balls or any power. Nope. Because it's all been taken away from him during the deregulation period where we don't need actually any regulation whatsoever. And so this is the this is the direct result for all you out there. And I know there's a bunch that listen to the show who are deregulation absolutists. Oh, you don't need regulations. The free market will take care of it. This is what you get. Corruption. The free market works great when it's not corrupt. So now we're gonna have to go, who do you sue? Who do you sue? You have to take him to small claims court or something. I don't know what you're gonna do. It's frightening. Somebody will come up with a model to sue them to get their money back and hopefully they'll find a judge who's not a, you know, just some dumb jerk-off that's sitting there doing nothing.
1:47:21 you know like i think they're all you know masturbate underneath his robes they're all in on this this is that this is the take down of the people they're all in on it they are all in on it i gotta go look at my water bill and i'm gonna freak out i know cuz i know the water bill is going to be like seven eight hundred dollars a month and we don't give me what i cook a little bit we take showers we don't think the one way to go about this if it's possible is it's is to uh... If you could re-meter your meters, in other words, turn off the thing and then put another meter on. Yeah, but meanwhile they've got the ultimate control over you because they can shut it off remotely, flick of the switch.
1:48:04 Not all of them are two-way yet, but they have that capability easily upgradable. No, no, no. This is a huge scam and a lot of people it's going slowly. It's like those the Chinese and Russian credit card dudes. What they do is they steal your card, but they don't charge like $1,000. You'll see a charge show up for $2.00 for the It'll be some kind of fee and they do this with a million people and they got you know two million dollars a month just from one little scammage. Go ahead I've seen it. I've seen it on my credit card and I refuse payment on it and but they're getting greedy now. It's like stupid slaves. They'll just take your money. You don't want to pay your water bill? Well it's good you're gonna get really thirsty. You don't like electricity? Well just gonna turn it off.
1:48:52 And all the whole cover is biodiversity and global warming and carbon and a bad Well, how's this gonna work with your your battery car douchebags? now it's it's Scares the bejesus scares the bejesus out of me, and we've got to do something about it. Yeah well they screwed up with that woman is giving her a $6,000 bill and Yeah, no they went a little too far on that one. Yeah, but of course they'll come up with some bogus. Oh, it was a mistake It was a faulty meter. It won't happen again. We'll fix it. Don't worry about it But meanwhile, so you you just said it yourself your electricity went up for some reason. Have you changed your habits? Not really. How much is like $10 $20 $100 no doubled
1:49:43 And what do you pay a month if you don't mind me asking? I pay, well, in this last bill that jerked up out of the blue went to a thousand dollars. What?! You're one dude in the house! Yeah. What are you running? You running something special in the basement? If I was growing pot at least it would make some excuse. You might have to. I might have to if we don't get more donations. This is crazy man. Yeah, we're gonna, we're working on it. So I think this is something... I don't know, we have to find some mechanism to sue him because I know it's bogus. This is something Mimi should sink her teeth into because she's, she notices this stuff. I'm sure she said, John what are you doing? I'm sorry she doesn't talk like that of course. But John what are you doing? What are you using double electricity? You got like hookers in there when I'm not around? What are you doing? You got like a disco ball and like strobe lights? What are you doing John?